ᐅ Which type of light switches are compatible with Philips Hue lamps?

Hello,

we are looking for suitable light switches for Philips Hue lamps.

Which light switches can you recommend that are compatible with Philips Hue lights and Matter?

If possible, we prefer a push button rather than a traditional light switch, one that returns to a neutral position after each press.

The light switches should be programmable with different functions (controlling various lamps and different dim levels) and continue to supply constant power to the lamps, sending only the signal to turn the lamp off.

The switch definitely needs to be powered by mains electricity and not battery-operated like the official Hue switch.

Can no one help with choosing light switches/buttons?

It is especially important to me that I can manually turn the light on and off by pressing the switch button, even if the internet or Philips Hue Bridge is down.

We simply do not have enough information about the project to offer any advice. Is it a new build or renovation? Which construction phase are you in? Is it still easy to lay cables (power, switches)? Photos are also missing, even if something already exists. Otherwise, I tried to imagine what you want, but no product came to mind (at least none that I know of or that would make sense for the mass market).

Actually, I just thought of a product... because "our" smart home system can do all that (currently almost, but soon everything). As soon as the fallback function is programmed into the Controllinos (in case the SmartManager fails), everything you want will keep working. Then you would only need to choose switches with the appropriate number of functions, which are wired via KNX or network cable. These switches are powered with (24V) electricity. In our system, it doesn’t really matter whether the switches are bus switches with displays or Gira double rocker switches, for example.

The Gira double rocker switch, for example, has 4 button functions, but programming allows for more (double clicks, combinations of multiple buttons pressed in defined time frames, etc.). BUT: our system is not yet actively marketed; that will take some more time—about 1 year. It was originally based entirely on open source (OpenHAB + MQTT, etc.) but has since been partially further developed with faster and better in-house solutions. It requires a fair amount of star-shaped or bus wiring, the actuators are all centrally located in the distribution board, and the smart components do cost a few hundred euros (SmartManager + 2-3 Controllino Mega/Max together around €1500).

But what can I say, we don’t currently sell the system, nor will we in the future, directly to end customers. Only to electricians, mainly general contractors / building contractors... sorry ;-)

Sorry for the missing information

This is an existing property that we purchased (but have not moved in yet).

Wiring is conventional.

We have a few Hue lamps that we are taking with us from the rental apartment, plus Ambilight.

With the Hue lights, it is important that they have a permanent power supply so they can establish the mesh network.

I am currently looking for suitable light switches to control the Hue lamps.

Then I don’t know of any product that meets your requirements; I rather suspect that such a product does not exist (but I do like to be proven wrong sometimes).